Archives


- Beowulf
- Beowulf Announce
- Scyld-users
- Beowulf on Debian

[Beowulf] How do people keep track of computers in your cluster(s)?

Many of your questions may have already been answered in earlier discussions or in the FAQ. The search results page will indicate current discussions as well as past list serves, articles, and papers.

Search

Robert G. Brown rgb at phy.duke.edu
Sun Oct 21 13:26:19 PDT 2007


On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Bruno Coutinho wrote:

> dmidecode can be used to gather vendor, serial number and firmware version
> of bios, processor and motherboard, and the machine as a whole  (if vendor
> fill it).
>
> smartctl can gather this information about disks

I'll look into seeing if I can integrate some of this into xmlsysd,
then.  Ideally via a systems call, not a shell call, as the latter has a
lot of overhead.

    rgb

>
> but I don't know a tool that can grab present this information of the entire
> cluster.
>

-- 
Robert G. Brown
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443
Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb
Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977



More information about the Beowulf mailing list